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Question:After taking the order in Zen Cart I want the Credit Card to be authorised but not charged to the customer until the goods have been shipped. I would anticipate the delay from order to shipping to be about a week. How do I go about this?

Answer:This largely depends on your choice of payment gateway, as to whether this option is offered or not. Most true Merchant Gateways offer this, including
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If your stylesheet is not loading properly (symptoms include a page that displays no coloring or expected layout etc), then your server's configuration of the Apache service is a little over-aggressive in its efforts to prevent you from doing things that might be questionable.This will usually happen on first-time installs of Zen Cart to a webserver you haven't used Zen Cart on before, and especially on (but not limited to) Windows/IIS hosts.

If you have access to your server's errorlog data, you can confirm that this is the problem
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(Windows servers "always" run PHP as a CGI app, so this FAQ may not apply to Windows hosts.)

While Zen Cart is "best" run on a server running PHP as an apache "module", some hosts only run PHP as a CGI application. There are generally more restrictions and limitations in functionality if this is how your PHP hosting is setup.

Things to Note
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1. Introduction

A much requested feature in Zen Cart™ was the ability to have unique information layouts for different types of products.
For example a Music Video needs to have different information stored and displayed, compared to say a Garden Bench.
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When your customer pays using a payment module whose configuration is set to "Orders Status: Pending", it means you've requested that all purchases with that module mean you DO NOT yet have the payment.

So, if that is the intended behavior, great! Then once you've verified payment then you need to go in to your admin, click on that order, click on Edit,
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Question:

When I'm testing payments on my shop using PayPal Website Payments Standard, it takes me to a screen where I'm asked to login to my PayPal account. But, I don't want my customers to be asked to login. I want them to see clearly that they can pay via Credit Card instead of having
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